ICRA 2026

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation is the largest academic robotics conference in the world. The 2026 edition is scheduled for Vienna, Austria, and the humanoid track is bigger than it has ever been.

Watch for: behavior-cloning improvements, manipulation benchmarks, and the now-inevitable foundation-model announcements. Figure and Sanctuary are presenting; expect quieter university teams to release the results they have been sitting on for the last two quarters.

We will cover what's worth covering in the Briefing the week after.